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Ubuntu Isn't Yet Recommending GNOME's VRR Option


While GNOME landed experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in GNOME 46 that is used by the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical isn't yet encouraging users to test out this option.

Prominent GNOME contributor Daniel Van Vugt with Canonical posted today in his week Ubuntu desktop status update: The upstream bug cited is VRR causing the screen to black intermittently when an application is full-screen. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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